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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miri realize she wants to do for the village?
(a) Be their trader.
(b) Teach everyone.
(c) Ask the prince for better status.
(d) Build a meeting hall.

2. What does Dan say he wants for his trouble?
(a) A prize.
(b) Twenty gold pieces.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Assurance the villagers will not come after them.

3. What does Olana allow the girls to do in the summer?
(a) Take flowers to the miners.
(b) Have class outside.
(c) Plant flowers.
(d) Swim in the lake.

4. What does Miri realize about her family?
(a) They are excited about her becoming a princess.
(b) They are happy for whatever she wants.
(c) They do not care about a house in the lowlands.
(d) They want to go to the lowlands.

5. What is the result of Miri helping Gerti?
(a) Miri is eliminated for cheating.
(b) Katar tells on them.
(c) Gerti is eliminated for cheating.
(d) Everyone begins helping everyone else.

6. What does Miri keep from the academy?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Clay tablets.
(c) Her dress.
(d) All the pictures.

7. What happens to Britta the night before the ball?
(a) She leaves to go home.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She falls ill.
(d) She becomes despondent.

8. What does Dan do when Pa rushes to save Miri?
(a) Pushes Miri to the ground and draws his knife.
(b) Throws a stone at Pa.
(c) Threatens to kill Miri.
(d) Threatens to take Miri with him.

9. What does Miri remember is in her pocket?
(a) A jagged piece of linder she had found.
(b) A letter opener.
(c) A small knife for peeling fruit.
(d) The linder hawk.

10. What does Pa throw at Dan?
(a) A large rock.
(b) A knife.
(c) His mallet.
(d) An axe.

11. What happens to Knut?
(a) He marries one of the girls from the academy and stays in the village.
(b) He goes to his home in the lowlands.
(c) He dies from the wounds received when protecting the girls.
(d) He is severely incapacitated and is cared for by villagers.

12. What happens to Britta as they wait for the prince?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She faints.
(c) She breaks down and starts crying.
(d) She leaves the assembly.

13. Who does Britta think the prince will choose?
(a) Miri.
(b) Britta.
(c) No one.
(d) Katar.

14. What worries Esa concerning the prince?
(a) He will know about her dubious family background.
(b) He will not want any of the girls.
(c) He will dismiss choosing her because of her injured arm.
(d) He will choose based on looks alone.

15. Who is holding Britta?
(a) No one.
(b) Onor.
(c) Dogface.
(d) Os.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is released from the closet?

2. Which bandits do not desert Dan?

3. What does Miri receive for her fifteenth birthday?

4. What does Miri realize will happen if they leave the academy?

5. Who is caught as the girls flee?

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